From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-06-25T23:05:49+09:00
Subject: Re: speeding up Process.detach frequency

Hi,

In message "Re: speeding up Process.detach frequency"
    on Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:15:07 +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:

|At Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:42:03 +0900,
|Joe Van Dyk wrote in [ruby-talk:146425]:
|> Is there any way to speed up Process.detach?  The ri documentation for
|> it says that it checks once a second, and I'd like to up that to maybe
|> once every quarter second.
|
|It seems like a bug of Process.detach.  After it received the
|termination, it unnecessarily waits for one second again.

Right.  But using rb_waitpid() withouth WNOHANG does busy-wait.

							matz.